Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy

Gregor Bös & Max Noichl

2025-09-12

Follow along at: https://mnoichl.github.io/data-driven-philosophy-GAP2025/

Schedule – Day 1

  • 09:00 – 09:30: Arrival and coffee.
  • 09:30 – 10:00: Introductions and general remarks.
  • 10:00 – 11:15: Keynote by Adrian Wüthrich & Discussion
  • 11:15 – 11:30: Short break
  • 11:30 – 12:00: Presentation on network visualization in edhiphy by Gregor Bös.
  • 12:00 – 13:30: Lunch break
  • 13:30 – 14:45: Keynote by Catherine Herfeld & Discussion
  • 14:45 – 15:00: Short break
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Presentation on OpenAlex Mapper by Max Noichl.
  • 15:30 – 17:00: Guided walkthrough of state-of-the-art text-analysis notebooks (different difficulties available).
  • 17:00 – 18:00: Brainstorming session, initiating individual and/or group projects.

Schedule – Day 2

  • 09:00 – 09:30: Arrival and coffee.
  • 09:30 – 12:00: Facilitated project work.
  • 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch break
  • 13:00 – 14:00: Continued project work.
  • 14:00 – 15:00: Project snapshots and farewell.

AI assisstance

To help you with understanding and writing computer code, we have set up an a way for you to chat with ChatGPT for free during the workshop. You can go to this website: https://niek.github.io/chatgpt-web/, and enter the API-key that we send to you per email. We also reccomend to set the model you chat with to o3.

Colab notebooks

  1. Text analysis (NER, Embeddings, Clustering): https://colab.research.google.com/github/MNoichl/data-driven-philosophy-GAP2025/blob/main/workbook_01_text_analysis.ipynb
  2. Network analysis (community detection, visualization, pagerank): https://colab.research.google.com/github/MNoichl/data-driven-philosophy-GAP2025/blob/main/workbook_02_network_analysis.ipynb